Back in the 1800’s, England, Spousal Abuse was very prominent. As horrible as it is, Husband’s were allowed and even encouraged at time to beat their Wives to “correct their behavior”. In fact in one case in specific a judge had said that it was completely acceptable for a Husband to hit his Wife with a stick if it was no bigger than his thumb! I cannot imagine if something were to happen like that in this day and age, and i think that is a perfect example of how much things have truly changed. In the 1800’s Wife beating was a very common practice and it was tolerated. Today it still happens but society fully acknowledges how incredibly wrong it is. Once a rich girl was tricked into marrying a gold digger. He would constantly abuse her with much worse than was accepted, ranging from wiping her, all the way to burning her face. She fled the home and filed for divorce. The male then went on to kidnap her in order to force her into calling off the divorce. She was rescued eight days later and one the divorce case. I think, that this case shows how even in the 1800’s people were sensible to some degree. It wasn't just mindless woman hate, and they knew that women deserve rights too. Even in this day and age we are not perfect. It is still a decently common practice for Christian Males to spank their Wives as a form of discipline and that isn’t all that frowned upon and get’s brought up rarely. In conclusion, we can point and laugh at how poor we our ancestor’s had treated Woman in the past, but in all honesty we must focus on the present and make sure we do not slip too far from the path we are on.
Emily Brontë, who wrote Wuthering Heights, had a life of death and sadness all around her. When Emily was young, she had to be pulled out of school after her two sisters became sick and eventually died from Tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is a disease that is very, very contagious and since health was so poor back in the 1820’s no one was immune. Emily’s other two sisters, Charlotte and Anne were also literary successes, writing such works as : Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Jane Eyre. This can be traced back to their father, Patrick Brontë, being a writer, as well as when they left their home in Yorkshire, England to go live in Haworth. This was the time where Emily and her two sisters would play with toys their father had gotten them and make up stories for them. Emily had eventually returned to school when she was much older only to leave a few months later. She then proceeded to get a job as a teacher at a law school in 1837. Things were looking up for Brontë when she and her sisters went to go study in Brussels, but were called back to Haworth not long after, as a result of their Aunt dieing. Since females lacked proper right’s back in the 1840’s Emily, Charlotte and Anne had to publish under male names. The names they had chosen were Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. In 1847 Emily Brontë, under the name of Ellis Bell, had published here incredible novel Wuthering Heights. She then went on to die only one year later in 1848 from, you guessed it, Tuberculosis. Her brother and sister, Branwell and Anne both died in 1848 from Tuberculosis as well. Charlotte lived on and got married, but eventually died in 1855 during pregnancy.
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